I am so glad this happened. A man like that doesn't deserve to walk the streets. I for one, feel safer now that a radically charged nutjob is behind bars.

I feel so horrible for Mr Tiller's family. I can't even imagine how horrible it must feel to have a loved one performing a service slaughtered, and for people to get excited about it and call it justified.

I'm alright with pro-lifers as long as they keep their hands and ideas to themselves.

As soon as they start pushing their ideas on me, that's when we have a problem.

Also, do pro-life men bother anyone else more than pro-life women? The women may have had to make a decision at some point, but I think it's something that guys just can't understand on the same level.

I've had some pretty heated, but intelligent debates with a pro-life friend. He's an American military man. So he's quite stubborn, and a bit of a prick to be honest. He's not an extremist though. He believes in people's rights, but he doesn't think abortions should be done unless the mother's life is threatened, or both lives are threatened with the pregnancy, and decided with care. He didn't understand how difficult the decision is for a woman to make in the first place. I remember arguing with him about how he could think that the greater majority of women wanting this hadn't thought it out thoroughly. Fortunately he didn't pull the shame and guilt card that a lot of pro-lifers use: "They had sex, and they should face the consequences."

Hating people doesn't solve anything. I just wish they would try to solve the issue instead of protesting and using scare tactics. I think people get so caught up in pro-life or pro choice both sides forget the ultimate goal is women never being in the position to have to make that choice. If both sides spent their time volunteering and helping educate people instead of arguing we would probably have a lot less women being in the position to have to choose.

make sure rapists wear condoms? or kill all rapists? or eliminate catholics? or what? pro-lifers don't really give a shit about "life", it's just a gut reaction stemmed from religious indoctrination. pro-choice is the reaction to their stupidity.

If both sides spent their time volunteering and helping educate people instead of arguing

I'm sorry, but it is incredibly frustrating to me when people make this argument. There is a ton of pro-choice volunteering and education. Planned Parenthood devotes a large percentage of its budget to education, and that is done entirely by volunteers. Pro-choice political groups lobby strongly for comprehensive sex ed. I am the president of the pro-choice group at my college and we pass out condoms all the time. By contrast, anti-choice groups lie about contraception and advocate for abstinence-only education. This is not a symmetrical situation. I would love to only volunteer as sex educator instead of dragging my ass out of bed at 6 am on Saturday mornings to go walk patients through anti-choice protesters, but I can't, because then the patients would have to face those people alone and no one deserves that. Seriously, not symmetrical.

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